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</help>
</project>
<project cat='kern'>
<title>FreeBSD Xen</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Roger</given>
<common>Pau Monné</common>
</name>
<email>royger@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
<person>
<name>
<given>Justin T.</given>
<common>Gibbs</common>
</name>
<email>gibbs@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_PVH">FreeBSD PVH DomU wiki page</url>
<url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0">FreeBSD PVH Dom0 wiki page</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>During this quarter almost all pending Xen changes have been
committed, enabling the usage of FreeBSD as Dom0 under the new
PVH mode. The set of features supported by FreeBSD is still limited,
but it should allow for basic usage of FreeBSD as Dom0. Support for
booting Xen from the FreeBSD boot loader will be committed very soon
to HEAD.</p>
<p>Apart from testing on a variety of hardware, work has now
shifted to improve PVH support in Xen itself in order to have feature
parity with a traditional PV Dom0 and to declare the PVH ABI as
stable.</p>
<p>Regarding guest improvements (running FreeBSD as a DomU),
there's also ongoing work to add unmapped IO support to Xen blkfront,
which is blocked pending some modifications to the generic bounce
buffer code.</p>
</body>
<sponsor>Citrix Systems R&amp;D</sponsor>
<sponsor>Spectra Logic Corporation</sponsor>
<help>
<task>
<p>Test on different hardware.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Improve backends (netback, blkback) performance.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Work with upstream Xen to improve PVH and make it stable.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>Improve generic bounce buffer code for unmapped bios in order
to support blkfront alignment requirements.</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>